Good effects can't save such an absurd film

Rating: 3/10 (18 January 2006)

Well, what can you say about Michael Bay? You would think that after the laughable, and offencive disaster of Pearl Harbor and Bad Boys II no studio exec in his right mind would let Bay get within five miles of a film set. Well, not really, since in Hollywood money is the bottom line and both of the aforementioned stinkers raked in tons of cash for Bay and his all-powerful buddy, producer mogul Jerry Bruckheimer. The Island had potential to be more than just a silly Hollywood blockbuster most people will forget in less than one year. But a good sci-fi plot has been thrown to some of the worst hack script writers in tinsel town and the result is a ridiculous film which leaps and bounds in degrees of absurdity with each passing moment, and this film is so long that by the time you get to the end the nonsense parade really gets out of hand. There are so many 'give me a break' moments and continuity holes in this turkey it might as well be Swiss cheese! Yeah, sure, the special effects look great, and the action chases are sort of cool; and yeah, everyone loves looking at Scarlett Johansson in a tight outfit, and yeah Ewan McGregor does a fair job of a terrible script with no help from a terrible director... BUT the rest is a disaster. This film insults the intelligence and deserves to be inducted into Hollywood's ever growing Hall of Shame.